Many know this; few practice it. Mies van der Rohe famously said “Less Is More”. Another way of putting this is “More Is Less”. But in recent years psychologists have noted that there is a human bias to additive, rather than subtractive, thinking. To solve a problem we add actions, steps, features, words, policies, people. We rarely subtract. Yet this additive approach often fails.
Apparently this is becoming an issue in Hollywood. Ever wonder why dialog can be hard to understand? It would appear that it isn’t your hearing or your audio system.
By Tom Martin
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